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[summary]
RxTracker allows you to play MED and SoundTracker modules via ARexx.
[info]
RxTracker: A Program for playing MED and Soundtracker modules from ARexx
by Dominic Giampaolo
Have you noticed that AmigaVision only plays those really crappy Deluxe
Music Construction Set SMUS files? The ones that sound like they were
taken from a Commodore 64?
Well I did.
I also noticed that SoundTracker/MED produce music that is an order of
magnitude better. As a matter of fact, if I was blindfolded and didn't
know, I wouldn't believe the music was coming from the same computer.
This is why I wrote RxTracker. It lets you play MED and SoundTracker
modules via ARexx. This means that you are no longer forced to listen to
those crappy DMCS files in your AmigaVision presentation. It also means
you can play songs from within your editor, spreadsheet, paint program, or
even a telecommunications program! Now tell me ARexx isn't the most killer
thing on earth....
Oh, one quick thing. The medplayer.library will ONLY play files saved from
the 2.0 or higher version of MED. For a module to be loaded as a MED
module, the first 4 bytes of the file must be (in ascii) MMD0. You can see
if a file is a good MED module by doing "type hex <modulename>". If the
first thing you see is MMD0, you're all set. If not, fire up MED, load the
module, and just save it back out again.
Requirements :
Obviously you need ARexx.
You also need to have both medplayer.library and streplay.library in
your libs: directory. Both of them total less than 9K, and are worth
sparing the disk space for (if you only have two floppies and things are
really just too tight, get PathAss from a fish disk or PD archive, and it
will let you split LIBS: across two disk - very handy!). Both librariers
are included here, and are copyright/left/center their respective authors
(i.e. I didn't write either one).